[ale] Major contributors to the Linux kernel

[ale-at-ale.org at unpopularminds.org (The Don Lachlan)]

On 04/01/2011 10:57 AM, Steve Brown wrote:
> Canonical has a handful of kernel developers. But you are correct, Mark has
> said that kernel development is not a key focus of Ubuntu. I think Mark
> address your concerns pretty well in one of his blog posts [0]
> [0] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/517

Ubuntu is primarily focused on forking Debian and narrowing the focus. 
Plenty of distributions do exactly that and it's part of why we write free 
software. As a result, Ubuntu isn't doing the kind of work that would create 
much need to contribute to the kernel.

The largest group of contributors are still unaffiliated with an employer. I 
would be terribly unhappy if we looked at that list of kernel contributors 
and decided RedHat, Novell, IBM, HP and Oracle are the people we should 
crowd around and support for "free software".

-L (Shuttleworth is still a prick, btw.)